| Surf The Web And Save On Prescriptions
(AP) KEY LARGO, Fla. It's not often you save several hundred dollars on medicine by surfing the Web, but David Melvin did, CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports. "Tremendous savings," he says. Melvin was on the Consumer Reports' Best Buy Drugs site and saw that his cholesterol medicine, Pravachol, was three times more expensive than a plain generic, Lovastatin, a drug the Web site was calling its "best buy." "When I saw the difference in pricing and what I could save, an "oh my God' is right," Melvin says. He also saw that Nexium, the hugely popular prescription drug he was taking for acid reflux, was not the best buy it was Prilosec OTC, sold over the counter. His doctor agreed to the changes, and when Melvin added his savings last year, it was more than $600 on two drugs. "I can have the same kind of effectiveness for a heck of a lot less money," Melvin says.
Gift ban may bar scholarships
Weld Central High School senior Erin Marvin, 17, a finalist for a Boettcher scholarship, could lose out on the award by the Boettcher Foundation because of Amendment 41, which limits gifts to government employees. Erin's mother works as a teacher's aide in the Keenesburg school district. Erin, however, is eligible for a scholarship by the Daniels Fund. Behind her are her parents. .
Bill protects students’ free speech
It would also protect school officials from liability for student expressions of free speech. Six states already have similar laws. On Saturday, Upthegrove joined student journalists, educators and others in a forum held at The News Tribune to discuss the proposed law and related issues. The forum was sponsored by the nonprofit Washington News Council, the Washington Journalism Education Association and Pacific Lutheran University's communications department. Students on the panel and in the audience spoke about their passion for exercising their freedom of speech – passion that can sometimes give school officials heartburn. "In my math class, in English class, I have to write what they want me to," said Kirsten Nee, a sophomore at Franklin Pierce High School.
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